The Arizona sentinel., 1887-09-10

 approved March Sth, l337, for the pIrpose of engaging in the enterprise hereinafter descr b .l, lo make, slbs;ribe al l ak 10 vl- edgs in triplicate these Articles of incorpo ration.
 The name of this corporation, and by which it shall h.relfter be klDEn, is the South Gila Caual Company, and its princi pal place for trausacting business is the town of Aztec, County of Yuma, Territory of Arizona.
 This corporation is organized for the rur- pose of constructing a canal in the County of Yuma, Territ,ry of Arizona, upon tde South bauk of the Gila River at a point one and one-half miles below the West end of Oatman Canhon, for the purpose of divert ing and carrying water from said Gila Xiv CT for agricultural, horticultural, domestic and manufacturing purposes.
 III.
 The amount of capital stock shall be One Million (SI, ,OOO, ,OO0,) Dollars, divided into twenty thousand (20, ,000) shares of the par value of Fifty (S5O00D Dollars each, which said stock shall be paid iii at the time and under the conditions specified and au- therized by the Board of Directors of this corporation.
 ".
 The commencement of this corporation shall be the day npou which these Articles are filed in the office of the Recorder of Yu- ma County. and shall terminate fifty l50j years thereafter.
 V. The affairs of the corporation shall be conducted by Board of Directors compos- ed of five (5) persons. who shall be electe'i annually by the stockholders, and shall hold office for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. The time and manner of said election shall be provided for in the By Laws of sail corporation.
 Said I -ecters shall be subscribers to the .apital stock of said corporation, and nu person shall be eligible to said office unless ne be stock holder in the corporation, and auy person ceasing to be subscriber shal cease to be Director, and hereafter if any Director shall cease to be a stockholder he shall cease to be Director.
 The Board of Directors of this corporation shall have power to establish By Laws and make all rules and regulations necessary for oF tl,a fiji # tbiS ration and the officers thereof.
 The following named persous, who are subscribers to the capital stock Of this cor poration. shall constitute the Board of Di .ectors until the 20th day of July, 1888. lnd until their successors are duly elected and qualified, to wit: Robert McPneis)n, W. k. Pope, o. F. Thornton, G. W. Came son and G. w. Mauk. f
 VI.
 The highest amount of indebtedness, di- rect or contingent, to whieh the corporation shall be at any time liable. is the sum O Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand ts2J0, ,00J) Dollars.
 The stockholders and their private prop erty shall be exempt from the corporate iebts of this corporation.
 In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 20th day of July, .SS7. Executed in triplicate.
 (Signed)
 ROBERT MCPHERSON. [. S.
 w. E. POPE. Us.
 n "a TIIO N.C0N Territory of Arizona, 1
 County of Maricopa.
 Before me, G. w. Ingalls,, Notary Public in and for the County of Maricopa, Territory of Arizona, on this day personally appeared Robert McPherson, w. E. Pope and O. F. Thornton, known to me to be the persons whose names gre subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and each of them ac knoxled ged to me that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed.
 Given under my hand and seal of offioe this 2Jth day of July: A. D. 1887.
 tSigned) G. ". INGALLS,. (Notarial Seal.) Notary Public. Territory of Arizona,
 CouHty of Yuma.
 I, Jos. J. Stein, County Recorder of Yu ma County Arizona Territory, do hereby certify that filed in the records of my of ice, on the twenty se ,ond day of July, A D. 1887, the articles of incorporation of the South Gila Canal Company.
 In witness whereof have here ISeall unto set my hand and affixed my
 official seal, the day and year in thIs certificate first above written.
 JOS. J. STEIN,
 County Recorde-